The nirvana this ostensibly will bring about is one that promotes such goals as "enhancing consumer choice, increasing competition and making insurance more affordable," as a team from Georgetown University described it in 2012.
Nevertheless it is still being promoted by industry as a credible policy alternative to universal taxpayer-funded access schemes in developed nations such as Australia, usually in the guise of enhancing "consumer" choice and responsibility[ 66].
On the demand side, quasi-markets are designed to create or enhance consumer choice, obliging providers to be responsive to those choices.
Leaving aside the matter of letting non-lawyers and non-lawyer-owned firms do legal work, more could be done to enhance consumer choice and attorney accountability.
The bill must find means to ensure that the BBC's commercial interests, which now impinge on smaller and bigger players right across the media industries, do not set off damaging turf wars, and reduce rather than enhance consumer choice.
Future work on incorporating this model into psychiatric rehabilitation programs would address skills consumers can use in living, working, and social environments in a way that enhances consumer choice and promotes recovery.
As a solution to this quagmire, Health Canada allocated CA$7 million over 3 years to create ONHP, a new regulatory authority that is charged with providing some legitimacy to alternative medicine through pre-market assessment, enhancing consumer access and choice to a full range of natural health products, and ensuring consumer safety.
In particular, these reforms aim to enhance consumer involvement and choice in relation to maternity care and to ensure that quality, evidence-based, safe and culturally competent care is delivered by an appropriately trained workforce within a sustainable maternity care system [ 19, 20].
To enhance informed consumer choice and to control greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions, governments should introduce regulations on the content of vehicle advertisements and marketing (as started by the European Union).
Changing current communications styles between doctors and consumers and enhancing consumers' participation requires significant cultural change.
He said Microsoft wants to enhance the consumer choices that can be exercised under the new operating system.
